11:26 AM,
Apr. 26, 2013

Protesters hold signs outside the NAACP Cincinnati chapter's general membership meeting at an Evanston church, even as members make their way inside.

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The disgruntled Cincinnati NAACP member who wanted to introduce a motion to ask the chapter president to resign was removed from the meeting Thursday night before she could speak.

Two female Cincinnati Police officers entered Unity Baptist Church in Evanston shortly after the meeting began at 6 p.m.. Minutes later, Franki Kidd, an executive board member, walked out of the church and said, "I was told to leave."

Kidd's removal from the meeting was part of small but highly visible and vocal protest related to Christopher Smtherman's presidency of the chapter. They object to his dual role as a ...